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Modern biomedical data mining requires feature selection methods that can (1) be applied to large scale feature spaces (e.g. `omics' data), (2) function in noisy problems, (3) detect complex patterns of association (e.g. gene-gene…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Ryan J. Urbanowicz , Randal S. Olson , Peter Schmitt , Melissa Meeker , Jason H. Moore

Feature weighting algorithms try to solve a problem of great importance nowadays in machine learning: The search of a relevance measure for the features of a given domain. This relevance is primarily used for feature selection as feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Gabriel Prat Masramon , Lluís A. Belanche Muñoz

Feature ranking has been widely adopted in machine learning applications such as high-throughput biology and social sciences. The approaches of the popular Relief family of algorithms assign importances to features by iteratively accounting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Blaž Škrlj , Sašo Džeroski , Nada Lavrač , Matej Petković

Feature weighting algorithms try to solve a problem of great importance nowadays in machine learning: The search of a relevance measure for the features of a given domain. This relevance is primarily used for feature selection as feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Gabriel Prat Masramon , Lluís A. Belanche Muñoz

High-dimensional datasets depict a challenge for learning tasks in data mining and machine learning. Feature selection is an effective technique in dealing with dimensionality reduction. It is often an essential data processing step prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Gustavo Sosa-Cabrera , Santiago Gómez-Guerrero , Miguel García-Torres , Christian E. Schaerer

Feature selection (FS) is a key research area in the machine learning and data mining fields, removing irrelevant and redundant features usually helps to reduce the effort required to process a dataset while maintaining or even improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Raul-Jose Palma-Mendoza , Daniel Rodriguez , Luis de-Marcos

Feature selection plays an important role in the data mining process. It is needed to deal with the excessive number of features, which can become a computational burden on the learning algorithms. It is also necessary, even when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Tarek Amr Abdallah , Beatriz de La Iglesia

Feature selection, as a data preprocessing strategy, has been proven to be effective and efficient in preparing data (especially high-dimensional data) for various data mining and machine learning problems. The objectives of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jundong Li , Kewei Cheng , Suhang Wang , Fred Morstatter , Robert P. Trevino , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu

Feature selection is essential for high-dimensional biomedical data, enabling stronger predictive performance, reduced computational cost, and improved interpretability in precision medicine applications. Existing approaches face notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xiaoyan Sun , Qingyu Meng , Yalu Wen

Feature selection is a crucial step in building machine learning models. This process is often achieved with accuracy as an objective, and can be cumbersome and computationally expensive for large-scale datasets. Several additional model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Shubham Sharma , Sanghamitra Dutta , Emanuele Albini , Freddy Lecue , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Feature selection is a crucial preprocessing step in data analytics and machine learning. Classical feature selection algorithms select features based on the correlations between predictive features and the class variable and do not attempt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kui Yu , Xianjie Guo , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li , Hao Wang , Zhaolong Ling , Xindong Wu

Feature selection is an important task in many problems occurring in pattern recognition, bioinformatics, machine learning and data mining applications. The feature selection approach enables us to reduce the computation burden and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Hadi Zare , Mojtaba Niazi

Large-scale online marketplaces and recommender systems serve as critical technological support for e-commerce development. In industrial recommender systems, features play vital roles as they carry information for downstream models.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xianquan Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Jieming Zhu , Qinglin Jia , Zhenhua Dong , Kai Zhang

Uplift modeling is a causal learning technique that estimates subgroup-level treatment effects. It is commonly used in industry and elsewhere for tasks such as targeting ads. In a typical setting, uplift models can take thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zhenyu Zhao , Yumin Zhang , Totte Harinen , Mike Yung

Feature selection is frequently used as a pre-processing step to machine learning. It is a process of choosing a subset of original features so that the feature space is optimally reduced according to a certain evaluation criterion. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Vijendra Singh , Shivani Pathak

With the advent of Big Data era, data reduction methods are highly demanded given its ability to simplify huge data, and ease complex learning processes. Concretely, algorithms that are able to filter relevant dimensions from a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Sergio Ramírez-Gallego , Salvador García , Ning Xiong , Francisco Herrera

Feature selection has drawn much attention over the last decades in machine learning because it can reduce data dimensionality while maintaining the original physical meaning of features, which enables better interpretability than feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yiwen Liao , Jochen Rivoir , Raphaël Latty , Bin Yang

The challenges in feature selection, particularly in balancing model accuracy, interpretability, and computational efficiency, remain a critical issue in advancing machine learning methodologies. To address these complexities, this study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nachiket Kapure , Harsh Joshi , Parul Kumari , Rajeshwari Mistri , Manasi Mali

Feature selection is a crucial step in large-scale industrial machine learning systems, directly affecting model accuracy, efficiency, and maintainability. Traditional feature selection methods rely on labeled data and statistical…

In the social sciences, it is often necessary to debias studies and surveys before valid conclusions can be drawn. Debiasing algorithms enable the computational removal of bias using sample weights. However, an issue arises when only a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tony Hauptmann , Stefan Kramer
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